Growing Nerviness at AUA´s Workforce

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: February 8, 2012; 00:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

The workforce at Austrian Airlines feels uncertainty. Even a bankruptcy is feared.

Growing Nerviness at AUA´s Workforce / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Alf van Beem, CC0

After the bankruptcy of the Hungarian airline Malev, AUA´s staff fears the same destiny. The holding company, the German Lufthansa does not want to grant further funds for its Austrian subsidiary. Instead, costs have to be cut radically. Lufthansa´s CEO Christoph Franz wants to reduce group expenses by € 1.5bn until 2014. AUA is not excluded at all.

By constrast, Lufthansa,…